Child Quotes · Page 93

Kids need activities and role models to stay out of trouble.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.

— Maria Montessori

“A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own”

— Kyle Adams

Life gets busy and we choose the path of least resistance when it comes to bringing up our children.

— Ulrika Jonsson

“Even if your children ever come home, they really aren’t yours anymore.” -Leia Organa Solo”

— Kathy Tyers

I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to…

— Chelsea Clinton

I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.

— Jay DeMarcus

Nic was a lovely child, though of course I'm prejudiced. I'm his father.

— David Sheff

You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their…

— Felix Dennis

In 50 years, the world has changed, especially for kids, but kids' needs haven't changed. They still need to feel safe, be…

— Beverly Cleary

Nobody knows how to raise your child better than you do. They're yours. Use some instincts. Be willing to listen to others.

— Anonymous

“If you want a couple of weeks in bed (as I did, bi-annually), and if you have indolent and credulous parents, it’s…

— Martin Amis

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

— Maria Montessori

Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“[children]can thus learn the art of loving and know truly that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or…

— Peter Tompkins

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked…

— Rhianna Pratchett

“I suspect that children want their parents to be busy; they don't want to have to fill your schedule with their paltry…

— Lionel Shriver

The mind grows by self revelation. In play the child ascertains what he can do, discovers his possibilities of will and thought…

— Friedrich Frobel

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every…

— Darell Hammond

Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be…

— Joseph Conrad

Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I…

— Michael Redhill

My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think…

— Patricia MacLachlan

“It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks,…

— Alan Paton

“The children’s hobbies aren’t only the children’s hobbies—the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much,…

— Fredrik Backman

“There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has him.”

— Lisa See

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

— George Wald

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

— John Cleese

Every single Daddy in this world is a hero to their child

— Ritu Ghatourey

I had challenges to overcome as a child, and that was good.

— John Caudwell

The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.

— Agnes Meyer Driscoll

I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.

— Marianne Elliott

No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.

— Hilda Doolittle

I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.

— H. A. Rey

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

— Clarence Darrow

“He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.”

— Eva Heller

I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't come…

— Jim Brown

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

— Temple Grandin

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

— Merton Miller

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

— Dorothy Nolte